“...Begs the question, did you see the suspect lung at the officer?”
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Well, at least to me (stemming from my fencing days), a lunge requires going forward with your “lead” leg. I would describe the passenger’s actions as (after being told 8 times in less than a minute and many, many times [I didn’t count them] to not reach and to ‘show me your hands’) suddenly lurching or springing from the car.
As I said before, if I had been the cop, i may well have fired also.
Lurching, springing, lunging, launching...lol
I only saw the suspect quickly exit the vehicle with what appeared to be his empty hands up, raised about to shoulder height. Was there something there that none of us saw? I have no idea.
The attorneys will come up with all kinds of novel descriptions before this is over.